Universal Basic Income

[sanantone]

Incorrect. To receive any sort of benefits you could not have a man living with you in the home, at the time. Matter of fact, social workers would visit your home just to confirm you didn't; as well as making sure you had no made extravagant purchases. Black women did not kick Black men out of the home to receive benefits. Due to the racial, social, and political structure of a system preventing Black men to be providers of their families what the system provided was often times more than what Black men could provide for their families, and that same system continues to play out in 2017.



That's always the case, and when it's not its some cornball thats projected to the forefront to say what they wanna hear.

You brought up a point about stability. Some women do not report when their boyfriends live with them or when their husbands come back because they would become ineligible for assistance either due to the man's criminal record or his income. If they were to break up, it can take a year or more to get back into public housing or to receive Section 8 vouchers.

It might vary by state and laws do change over time, but the only agency that came to our home was the local housing authority. They checked for whether or not there was a man in the home, not because there was a blanket rule against having a man, but because a man was not listed in the household composition.